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I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

I'm not attached to anything.
I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.
I think that I will die with the boots on.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

How can we help President Obama?

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore,

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating ... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

If someone is responsible, it's me,

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe,

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

Humanity can learn from those who have broken their chains. Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything.

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

inspired my own life.
Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan.
--Fidel Castro

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

So these Red Sox ... are they a Communist organization?

Ideas do not need weapons.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.